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RETAINS DECATHLON TITLE Bob Mathias of the United
States is shown above taking a mighty leap in the broadjump
event of the decathlon, which he won for the second time in a
row Saturday by piling up a new record number of points. Math
ias, the United States decathlon champ, also won the Olympic
crown as a teenager in 1948.
California Town Goes Wild
As Mathias Wins Decathlon
Tulare. Calif. (U.R) Jubil
ant Tulare residents held their
wildest celebration since 1948
Saturday after the number one
citizen, Bob Mathias, set a new
world decathlon record at the
Olympics.
Bedlam broke loose as the
news of Mathias' triumph rip
pled through the community of
12,000 persons. Excited citizens
rushed into the downtown sec
tion and began parading.
Sirens wailed, whistles
screeched and a huge fog horn
was turned on full-force to noti
fy farmers and nearby cities that
the 21-year-old Stanford athlete
had won the gruelling test for
the second straight time.
Bob's mother, Mrs. Lillian
Mathias. who had been waiting
in the Elks clubroom in a down
town hotel immediately burst
into tears when informed by the
United Press that her son had
won the event.
"It's just wonderful ... I knew
he would do it," she cried. I
felt he would come through
even if he had to do it with one
leg."
Mrs. Mathias was so overcome
with emotion that relatives had
to take her to a deserted office
In the hotel as the celebration
swung into high gear.
"He certainly did a good day's
work." declared Bob's father,
Dr. Charles Mathias. "It was
wonderful."
It was the second celebration
for Tulare residents this week.
The first started Tuesday morn
ing when another home town
boy and high school classmate
of Mathias, Sim Iness, shattered
the Olympic discus record.
The town's largest fire truck
led a parade of several hundred
cars through the city Saturday
as aerial smoke bombs and fire
crackers were exploded to add
to the confusion and general hi
larity of the occasion.
Officials said the festivities
did not equal the celebration
held in 1948 when Mathias won
the 10-event grind in London for
the first time. However, Mayor
Tom Drilling predicted that
"we'll really let go" during a
home-coming "spree" for Math
ias an Iness.
"All of Tulare is deliriously
happy with the realization that
we have two of the outstanding
athletes of all time," he said.
Mathias Wins Olympic
Decathlon Championship
With New Point Record
Helsinki (U.R) Bob Mathias
of Tulare, Calif., won the Olym
pic decathlon championship for
the second straight time Satur
day. His left thigh was swathed in
bandages because of a pinched
muscle, but he battled his way
through the 10-event grind over
the two day period just as he did
in the 1948 games at London.
- He had piled up 7,599 points
after the ninth event and then
won his title in the final event
the 1,500 meter run.
His victory smashed the rec
ord for the most gold medals the
U. S. has ever won in an Olym
piad. This was the 13th, and
heretofore the most the Yanks
had won was 12. Mathias scored
a world record of 7,887 points to
win.
Milton Campbell of Plainfield,
N. J., ranked second and Floyd
Simmons of Los Angeles third.
For 10 hours Friday he bat
tled through five events the
100-meter dash, the broad jump,
the shot put, the high jump and
the 400-meter run. Again Satur
day he and the 28 other hopefuls
were herded from jumping pit
to running track and back in the
high hurdles, the discus, the pole
vault, the javelin and finally
the 1,500.
He did the 110-meter hurdles
in 14.7 seconds Saturday, the
discus with 153 feet 10.20 inches,
the pole vault in 13 feet 1.68
inches, the javelin with 194 feet
3.60 inches and then the 1,500
in 4 minutes 50.8 seconds.
Friday he was 10.9 seconds in
the 100, 22 feet 10.8 inches in
the broad jump, 50 feet 2.28
inches in the shot, six feet 1.92
inches in the high jump and 50.2
seconds in the 400.
Tommy Kono of Sacramento,
Calif., who said "I'd promised
my girl I'd win," smashed Rus
sian domination of weight-lifting
tdoay when he set a new world's
record in winning the light
weight divison championship.
Kono set a world record of
257.73 pounds for the snatch
exercise and set an Olympic
record of 797i pounds for the
overall competition.
Campbell got second in the
decathlon with 6,975 points. Sim
mons was third with 6,788 and
Vladimir Volkov of Russia
fourth with 6.674.
The biggest surprise Saturday
however, came when Bob Me
Millen of Los Angeles pulled up
a surprising second to Victor
Joseph Barthel of Luxembourg
in the 1,500 meters the metric
mile. Both were clocked in the
new Olympic record time of 3
minutes 45.2 seconds.
Portland Women Lose
In Olympics Swimming
Helsinki (U.R) Two Port
land, Ore., swimmers failed to
qualify Saturday in semi-finals
of the 200-meter breaststroke as
the swimming part of the 1952
Olympics got underway.
Judy Cornell of Portland fin
ished fifth in her heat of the
event while Mrs. Delia Sehorn,
also of Portland, was sixth in
another.
Bevos Top Pads
In 12 Innings
San Diego (U.R) The Port
land Beavers used three pitchers
to down the San Diego Padres,
6 to 5, Saturday in a hard-fought
12-inning game to clinch the
series.
The Beavers, who got off to
a slow start while the Padres
rolled up three counters in the
first two innings, tied the battle
in the seventh at 3 to, 3. They
pushed across three more runs
in the 12th inning and then held
the Padres to two runs in the
last half of that frame to take
the win.
The victory went to Hurler
Royce Lint who collected his
fourth win over the Padres.
San Diego jumped into the
lead in the first inning when
Jack Tobin singled and scored
on Herb Gorman's double to
left field. The Padres further
saddened the Beavers by making
it 3 to 0 in the second when Lon
Summers doubled, Lou Stringer
walked and Whitey Wietelmann
singled to load the bases. Pitcher
Theolic Smith's infield force out
scored Summers and Tobin
singled in Stringer.
Portland scored in the third
when Aaron Robinson hit his
first home run.
Jackson County Gridders Slate
Practice tor B All-Star Game
Four Jackson county high
school youths will participate
in the first annual Oregon
Shrine East-West Class B foot
ball game to be held at Pendle
ton on August 30.
They are Junior Taylor, Jack
sonville: and Leo Schmelzer,
Keith Bayne and Max Hite,
Phoenix. Jack Woodward, Phoe
nix coach, who was slated to be
an assistant on the Western
coaching staff, will be unable
to participate.
Ticket sales for the first foot
ball meet of the B schools were
high last Friday, according to
the Pendleton Chamber of Com
merce, with nearly all of the
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Come And See Thrills, Spills
And The Powder Puff Derby!
All Drivers Local Medford, Ashland,
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Admission: . .
Adults $1.00-Children (under 12) 50c
5,000 grandstand seats gone.
Some 10,000 bleacher seats will
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ever. A pageant is planned both be
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newest program addition being
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Practice for the coming con
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Nege
Sailors Union Dispute
otiations Continue
San Francisco (U.R) Rep
resentatives of the AFL Sailor's
Union of the Pacific and the Pac
ific Maritime Assn., were con
tinued joint negotiations Satur
day in an effort to halt the 60
day old West Coast shipping
strike.
At the conclusion of Friday af
ternoon's five - hour session Fed
eral Conciliator Omar Hoskins
reported "very slight progress."
Hoskins said special attention
had been given the "scope of
work" issue.
US Davis Cuppers
Defeat Japanese
In Zone Matches
Cincinnati (U.PJ The U.
S. doubles team of Gardnar Mul
loy of Coral Gables, Fla., and
Billy Talbert of New York elim
inated Japan from 1952 Davis
Cup tennis play Saturday when
they scored a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
victory over Jiro Kumamaru
and Fumitero Nakano.
The United States team won
the first two singles matches of
the North American zone com
petition yesterday when Art
Larsen of San Leandro, Calif.,
beat Kamamaru and Vic Seixas
of' Philadelphia defated Atsuki
Miyagi.
Mulloy and Talbert, four-time
national doubles champions, ex
ploited Kumamaru's strained
left Achille's tendon to win de
cisive points throughout the
match. At no time, however, was
the American team able to dom
inate the experienced Japanese
pair.
A crowd of 1,500 saw the
matches in 90-degree heat at the
Cincinnati Tennis club's clay
courts.
Sunday, July 871952
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Karpel Scheduled to Start
On Mound Against Coquille
Herb Karpel, veteran major
and Pacific coast league, left
hander, will be making his first
Medford start today since join
ing the Cheney Studs earlier in
the season, according to Manag
er Paul (Hoosier) Hoffard.
The Studs will meet the Co
quille nine at 2 o'clock this aft
ernoon at the Medford fair
grounds park.
The local men will be attempt
ing to break into second place
currently held by Coos Bay
North Bend team by the slim
margin of eight percentage
points over the Studs.
Karpel has delivered his styl
ish offerings in the uniforms of
the New York Yankees of the
American league and Hollywood
and Seattle in the coast league.
His specialty is good control alt
ered with a knuckle ball that is
"full of stuff."
Also playing in his first league
series before a home crowd is
Outfielder Don Fawcett, ex-Med-ford
high school ace. Fawcett
was a star player and team cap
tain on the school's basketball
team during 1942-43, and held
down second base on the baseball
team. He joined the team
Dodgers, Yanks Face Chance
Of Losing Big League Leads
New York (U.R) The Brook-.
lyn Dodgers and New York
Yankees, who only recently
were thinking in terms of run
away pennant races, were faced
Saturday with losing streaks
which were mounting to serious
proportions.
The St. Louis Cardinals again
dumped the Dodgers, 5 to 3,
sending them down to their
fourth loss in five games while
the Detroit Tigers on the wings
of Steve Souchock's grand-slam
homer, beat the Yankees, 10 to
6, in 11 innings and tagged them
with their fourth consecutive
defeat. The Yankees thereby
equalled their longest losing
streak since Casey Stengel be
came their manager four years
ago.
The New York Giants, strug
gling to remain within striking
distance of the Dodgers, took
advantage of the Cardinal vie
tory by beating the Cincinnati
Reds, 7 to 2. As a result, they
moved to within 41, games of
the leaders.
The Yankees, however, main
tained their four-game edge over
the Red Sox when the St. Louis
Browns beat Boston, 7 to 2. Dave
Madison, a former Yankee,
scored his third victory of the
Los Angeles Rams Lose
Valuables to Thieves
Redlands, Calif. (U.R)
Players on the Los Angeles Rams
professional football team were
robbed of several thousand dol
lars in rings, watches and cash
when a thief raided their lock
ers at the University of Red-
lands football field.
Tex Schramm, Rams official,
said the theft occurred while
the gridders were in a practice
session.
season for the Browns all three
of which were over the Red Sox.
The Philadelphia Phillies beat
the Chicago Cubs, 7 to 2, and the
Pittsburgh Pirates downed the
Boston Braves, 6 to 4, in other
National League games while
the Washington Senators out
scrambled the Cleveland Indians,
11 to 10, and the Chicago White
Sox defeated the Philadelphia
A's, 9 to 3, in other American
League games. There were no
night games scheduled.
Solons Bounce
Hollywood 4-1
Hollywood (U.R) The
Sacramento Solons put another
dent in Hollywood's Pacific
Coast league lead Saturday when
they bunched seven hits to crush
the Stars 4 to 1.
The Sacs, anchored to the
league's cellar, took their sec
ond win of the series to trim
Hollwood's already precarious
lead over second - place Oak
land. Sacramento opened the scor
ing in the third inning When
Richie Myers singled to left and
scored on Bob Dillinger's
double to right field.
Gino Restelli blasted a four
staffer over the left field wall
in the sixth for the Solon's sec
ond tally.
In the seventh, Eddie ' Bock
man and Jim McKeegan reach
ed base on singles, advanced on
a sacrifice by Pitcher Glen El
liott, and Bockman scored on
a wild throw to third by Holly
wood Hurler Larry Shepard.
McKeegan brought in the fourth
run on Bob Dillinger's fly to
center.
Eddie Malone saved the Stars
from a shutout in the final frame
when he connected for a home
run and Hollywood's only score.
after the end of the school term
at Kansas City, Mo., medical
school where he is enrolled. In
his initial fray last week against
.Roseburg. he connected at the
plate with seven for nine and
displayed fielding knowhow.
Coquille is currently in sixth
place in the Southwest Oregon
league, with a hefty lead over
cellar. - dwelling Brookings. The
two teams met last night under
the lights for the first of the
two game series.
Eel's Fatal Itinerary
Causes Snarl of Traffic
Newbury, Mass. (U.R) The
fatal itinerary of an 18-inch eel
caused a 20-minute traffic snarl
on the Newburyport Turnpike.
An unidentified fisherman
pulled the eel from the Parker
river and the backswing of his
rod sent the squirming fish into
a passing automobile.
The motorist stopped and gave
the angler a 20-minute piece of
his mind. Traffic was halted
during the "lecture" and requir
ed police direction to be re
stored to normal.
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